admonish

As a preliminary matter, the Court finds it necessary to admonish Plaintiff’s counsel for their unprofessionalism and incivility.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Antonelli complained again about Russell's driving on the slowing down lap and Wolff again came on the radio to admonish him: "Kimi, we talk about this privately, not on the radio."

From BBC ● May 23, 2026

"We stayed to guard our soil," her daughter Najat al-Nour, a Quran professor in her fifties who lifted her chin high to admonish those who left.

From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026

“Instead, we felt it was beneficial to just admonish ‘Pickles’ for running from officers!”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2024

I shouldn’t put her off, I admonish myself.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

Although Yaba also laments that no one excelling in his stage of the game, he also admonishes his pal, “You shouldn’t use this world for your own pleasure.”

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2025

“NEVER attempt to remove a crab from its sea shell,” the sheet admonishes.

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2025

“Shame on you, Tiffany,” she admonishes herself now.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2024

The league sometimes admits mistakes and admonishes referees.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 11, 2023

The kindness gives way a moment when he snaps his fingers and curtly admonishes the guardias for not putting out chairs for his guests.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

There’s established law there, and trial courts have, on the whole, held, and when they haven’t, they’ve been admonished or overturned on appeal.

From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2026

She served as lead attorney in the E. Jean Carroll case, during which the judge admonished her repeatedly for her poor legal skills.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

He also admonished Nexstar for not providing that information in any of the hearings or in its filings with the court.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

The judge reserved the question of what she called “guardrails for witnesses”—that is, whether Mr. Carroll’s alleged victims will be admonished or perhaps even penalized if they testify that he, rather than “she,” raped them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

And once more the court admonished the witness: “Answer yes or no, do you have an opinion?”

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

Robert Mueller, who ran the FBI from 2001 to 2013, was known to adhere to Hoover’s G-man dress code of white shirts and dark suits, admonishing agents who wore something more colorful.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026

And on Sunday, he was admonishing himself for it.

From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2025

Look closely, and “Smile now, cry later” is etched into the clear glass below a suspended bandanna, a gently admonishing song lyric by Sunny and the Sunliners, the 1960s Chicano R&B group.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2025

Notably, a 2018 video of Walz admonishing Ford over a low-quality headlight harness has resurfaced to the delight of gearheads.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2024

But before she’d finished admonishing him, several sheydim leapt into the aisle and reached for him.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny